Members of the Mescalero Apache tribe
are scheduled to receive checks of $1,500 each from a $32.8 million windfall
received through federal settlement.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that
Tribal Council decided to issue the checks next week after getting pressured by
community members to split up the entire $32.8 million settlement. The
remaining $10 million is expected to be set aside to pay tribal members
dividends next year.
The Mescalero Apache's windfall of nearly $33 million came
from an agreement, announced by the Interior Department in early April, to pay
more than $1 billion to 41 tribes across the country to settle dozens of
lawsuits over the mismanagement of funds and natural resources held in trust by
the federal government for the benefit of tribes.
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